Greek Press: Reds Winger in £3.4m switch to Olympiakos
Liverpool winger Albert Riera will complete a €4m (£3.4m) to Olympiakos on Thursday, according to reports in the Greek press. The initial fee of €4m will rise by €2m (£1.7m) if the Greek club win the Superleague next season. The fee which will eventually amount to £5m will be a loss on the £8m the Reds paid Espanyol for the player in September 2008, and although the Spanish international had a relatively successful first year at the club, his second was shrouded in controversy. After a training ground bust up, his outspoken comments about Rafa Benitez and the club being a “sinking ship” led to him being frozen out at Anfield and a move to Spartak Moscow was speculated. Yet he was included in Roy Hodgson’s pre-season squad to Switzerland and there was a possibility of a reintroduction into first team affairs, but now it looks like he will be leaving Liverpool.
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July 21st, 2010
Rafa and his buys. Total joke him buying all this rubbish. Rafa is so over rated. Thankfully he is gone for good.
July 21st, 2010
i told you this this morning! and its 4 million upfront bye the way, good get rid of the mouthy git.
July 21st, 2010
A very good player. Who knows what happened with the training ground bust up. Maybe the youngster he supposedly punched deserved it?
Looks like he was quite correct in his statement about Liverpool under Rafa. Echoed by Yossi.
We had a best season in nearly 20 years with him as a regular.
July 21st, 2010
feck off riera
July 21st, 2010
No pace, runs down blind alleys, marginally better than Babel no loss.
July 21st, 2010
I liked Riera and I think he was right about Benitez who totally lacked man management…
July 21st, 2010
I thought we were supposed to try this guy with the new set-up? From whence cometh all this leaving chat???
July 21st, 2010
i agree with dude.
July 22nd, 2010
i personally wouldn’t mind if our roy gave him another crack (not at the kid) but maybe roy is just gathering enough dough for another top-notch player!